Petra

2078 is gonna be my year.

I feel it.

Siena! 😍
Man sagt, man mag entweder Siena oder Florenz. Ich bin gespannt, ob dir Siena gefällt... Es ist halt fast noch mittelalterlich, weil sie Immer mit Florenz im Clinch lag und aus "Trotz" einfach die Renaissance nicht mitgemacht haben. 😅

Oh ja, Sarteano ist echt schön! Ich war mal vor 21 Jahren in einem Hotel etwas außerhalb (La Laterna), aber war immer wieder auch im Örtchen. <3

My first go at pulling together all the Midsomer Murders actors who are actually related! I’m sure there are still a few missing, but I’ll be adding more over the next few days.

➡️ midsomermurdershistory.org/real-life-re...

#MidsomerMurders #InspectorBarnaby

Oh, thank you. <3

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me.
(Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.)

Feel free to repost.

Can anyone tell me what this Irish jig(?) is called? No music recognition software can tell me.
(Since you can't attach audio files here, I made a video and recorded the music.)

Feel free to repost.

☑️ Mandatory lunar eclipse photo

I'm rarely a fangirl for someone, but I almost giggled out loud. Almost. Instead, I just smiled at her and walked past her towards my room.

Annette sits at a dining table, smiling warmly. She wears a dark grey patterned top. In front of her are bowls of soup, glasses and cutlery. Other people in brightly patterned shirts are partly visible on either side. The setting is in a conservatory restaurant with wooden blinds in the background.

Annette Badland and me smiling, sitting closely together in front of a wooden wall. Annette on the left wears a dark grey top with a subtle pattern. Me - on the right - have curly blonde hair and wear a black dress with lace detail at the neckline, a watch and a thin bracelet.

Oh, it's already been two and a half months since I met Annette Badland. It was so amazing.
And when she walked past me in the hotel corridor on her way to her room, I wished her “good night” and she replied “good night, darling”... 🥹❤️

Why are unpleasant emails so unpleasant?
And why do I see emails as unpleasant when I'm just doing self-care? 🫠

A woman with short, wavy blonde hair smiles softly at the camera. She is indoors, wearing a black top with lace detail and silver drop earrings, and is holding a piece of dark textured fabric draped over her shoulder. Rolled-up documents are visible in the blurred background.

Praise, honour and glory to the inventor of 'Yeti scarves'.

I'm not sure if I'm ready for men's football again. #S04BSC #2Bundesliga

Gott, sieht das gut aus! Alles Gute, Derek!

I can't tell you how happy I was last month when the five-year finance finally came to an end. It's a shame how much we (my partner and I) ended up losing, but we're no longer travelling the world in a Tesla.

ChatGPT, after I recorded myself reading an English text and asked it to tell me the accents it hears - honest and critical.
So no exact details, but even if this is approximately correct... I'm a bit flabbergasted.

„You sound like someone who knows, appreciates & empathises with Teesside - but you don't (yet) sound like you grew up there.

I'd say:
- 60-65% Teesside
- 20% general North East
- 15% Standard English/RP

And that's great - especially for someone who hasn't heard the accent ‚from a young age.‘“

You're right. I have already searched here for Bingen and British travellers on the Rhine in the surroundibgs. But not yet by name.

It will be interesting to see whether everyone is allowed to enter or whether someone has made negative comments against Trump & Co. Or whether there is an exception.

Google Search and Google Books. 😬
If I get through it quicker than I think, I'll do some more scientific research on the missing ones. But I want to get the first round done quickly. And since often only a surname is noted for the rest, I'm afraid it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.

4/4 … and his wife Janet, known as “Jessy”, daughter of Alexander Fraser, Esq., former Lord Provost of Aberdeen. Alongside them, a “Miss Fraser” signed the guestbook – evidently one of Janet’s sisters (Jean, Agnes, Isabella, Margaret, Barbara, or Angelica).

3/4 - Among those who signed the guestbook in June 1826 were: “Mrs Gira Wilson”, “Mrs Wilson”, “Miss North”, “Mr Curry”, and “Miss Vigers (London)”.

I have been able to identify Mr and Mrs “Thomson Banchory d’Ecosse” as Alexander Thomson of Banchory (1789–1868)…

2/4 - considered writing a blog post – but if I can only identify a third of my list, I would end up publishing a post with 1,333 names, most of them anonymous. That hardly seems worthwhile. On the other hand, I am quite certain that some of them are known or traceable in the UK.

In June 1826, 9 travellers with English-sounding names signed the guestbook in Klopp Castle at Bingen on the Rhine.
However, I have only been able to identify 3 of them. The others either did not provide their forenames or gave no titles, making identification difficult.
So how to identifying them?🧵

Friday. I've started researching the names (not too deep for the sake of numbers).
And I'm already racking my brain.
What do I do with all the ones I can't identify?

I'll make a new thread for that. Maybe one of my followers who are researching Britain's Romantic Period will have an idea?

Midsomer history in „Murder on St Malley‘s Day“:

At the beginning of November in 1963, two weeks before Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated John F. Kennedy, he was in Midsomer Parva. Dudley Carew had documentary proof of this.

Source: midsomermurdershistory.org

A young man in formal evening wear holds a candelabrum with four lit candles, standing in front of a door marked ‘10’. Behind him, a group of similarly dressed young men gather, partially obscured in the dim lighting, creating a mysterious and solemn atmosphere.

My first appointment tonight 🥄

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Coming up next:
The 1920s.
In it: What issues arose during the decade that led even the English FA to reconsider its adherence to 'their' offside rule.

This brings us to the heart of the series - the last major change to the offside rule in 1925.
But... more of that later.

100 Jahre Abseits: Sheffield und Schottland - Bolztribüne Serie zur letzten großen Änderung der Abseitsregel vor 100 Jahren, Teil 2: Sheffield und Schottland spielten um 1900 eine besondere Rolle.

Part 2 of my series on the history of the offside rule has been published on @bolztribuene.de. This one is about offside variations and 'scientific football' (1858-1924).

(If you can‘t read German, your browser can translate it into your preferred language).